I rarely go to the movies. With four children, my wife and I would have to find a babysitter, and that plus ticket prices can get pretty expensive. It’s much cheaper to simply wait for the Blu-Ray to come out. This doesn’t bother me. I’m not one of those people who must “see it in…
Last year I was invited to submit an essay to a wonderful anthology being put together by Smart Pop Books and Orson Scott Card. The book is a collection of essays from various writers on the subject of Ender’s Game, one of my favorite novels of all time and the one novel I’ve read more times…
I’m pleased and somewhat stunned to report that EARTH UNAWARE, which I cowrote with Orson Scott Card is a New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller. It hit number 14 on the New York Times and stayed on the list for a total of three weeks. Not bad. Our editor at TOR was…
The second arc of the Formic Wars comic book series from Marvel is now available. I’m excited about this compilation. It includes five issues beautifully penciled and inked by Giancarlo Caracuzzo, with the super talented Jim Charalampidis as colorist. Both have been working on Formics Wars since the beginning, and they’re incredible. Marvel always produces a…
I have amazing kids and an amazing wife. It sounds cliche, but I honestly consider myself the luckiest man alive. My children aren’t perfect of course; we have our share of tantrums and sibling arguments and tears, but so does every family. That’s life. That’s part of growing up and learning. That’s what being a…
This past Saturday was the Kentucky Derby. I’m not that interested in horse racing. As in, at all. It’s always struck me as slightly cruel. Riding horses for recreation is one thing, but whacking the horse with a crop and essentially whipping it repeatedly to make it run faster doesn’t seem especially kind. But one…
